List of Famous people born in France
Ronan Pensec
Ronan Pensec is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1985 to 1997.
Christian Latouche
Christian Latouche is a French billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and CEO of Fiducial SA, a global accounting company.
Philippe Gaumont
Philippe Gaumont was a French professional road racing cyclist. He earned a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 100 km team time trial. In 1997 he won the Belgian classic Gent–Wevelgem and he was twice individual pursuit French national champion, in 2000 and 2002. In 2004, Gaumont quit professional cycling and later ran a café in Amiens.
Luc Carvounas
Luc Carvounas is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 until 2020, representing Val-de-Marne.
Princess Henriette of France
Anne Henriette of France was a French princess, the twin of Louise Élisabeth of France, and the second child of King Louis XV of France and queen consort Marie Leszczyńska.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
Cécile Muschotti
Cécile Muschotti is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing the 2nd district of Var.
Valéry Mézague
Valéry Mézague was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Antoine Schnapper
Antoine Schnapper was a French art historian on art of the 17th and the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques-Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution. He taught at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
Joan Pau Verdier
Joan Pau Verdier was a French singer born in Périgueux, Dordogne, who performed in both Occitan and French. He was one of the main figures of Nòva chançon musical renewal wave during the 1970s.